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A Course About People | 5 Snippets of Wisdom for February 8
Your 5 little snippets wisdom for this week are listed below, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope you’ll find them meaningful and useful as you go about your week.
- People are afraid to look foolish.
- People respond to love and nurturing, and to the absence of it.
- People respond to incentives.
- People are always capable of much more than they know.
- People are happier when they are learning.
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Build Your Business Like You Mean It: If You’re Going For a Big Income Goal, Make Sure Your Foundation Is STRONG.
You wouldn’t build your dream home on a piece of property with erosion issues, right?
When building a Lego® building, you’d make sure the base is wide so you could build tall and proud, I’m sure!
Your business is the same way…and if you’re building for the long haul, or have ambitious income goals, it’s all the more important to get the foundation - those papers, government docs, contracts, filings and more, all tickety boo.
And why wouldn’t you, especially if there’s someone on hand who’s been through all the bumps, and can make it clear, simple and easy?
I’m delighted to introduce you to Alexis Neely, creator of the LIFT System, and a top-of-class lawyer, mom and creator of 2 million dollar businesses which she has then sold. A powerful combination she really is. (And she wears a flower in her hair, too!)
She, like me, has helped many business owners over the years, and seen her share of:
Wrongful dismissals, deaths without wills, bankruptcies due to financial blindspots, no-contract ‘business’ deals that go sour, lawsuits within previously solid teams, accusations of fraud, and more.
As a result, she’s written a much-needed document called the LIFT Manifesto which grabbed my serious attention. When we talked, I said what I felt in my heart, and that is ‘Alexis, we’ve been waiting for you.’
I know this may seem like a boring topic, but I challenge you as a ‘real-deal’ business owner to suspend that assumption and see for yourself:
Click here to read the LIFT Manifesto
If you mean to continue to succeed, and be around a long, long time, I can’t think of a stronger recommendation to make to you at this moment.
Also, in full disclosure:
As a measure of my support for LIFT, I’ve agreed to support Alexis as an official partner - it’s a real win-win for all!
I invite you to see for yourself by clicking the above link, knowing that if down the road she becomes someone you work further with, I’ll receive a payment from her for this intro. The real kicker is, I’d tell you about LIFT and Alexis anyway, regardless. And that’s all I got to say about that.
When The People Who Help You Collect Money Online Have New Rules - It Pays To Pay Attention
My friend Ken McArthur has the ear of people in the know, and the people in the know say that new rules have arrived.
Most of us take our payment processing for granted. It’s like our banks…do you ever worry that they’d refuse to let you withdraw money? But if shopping carts, merchant accounts, and other payment processing tools were to disappear, wow, where would we be, right?
For the full list of guidelines, click here to read Ken McArthur’s post in his Marketing Thoughts Blog. Thanks, Ken, for passing along this direct source of info!
In The Pursuit of Money, Meaning & Beyond, Is It Time For Some Hair Of The Dog?
This thought-piece by Andrea J. Lee is excerpted here for the first time from the book, Money, Meaning and Beyond, Chapter 21
Ever feel like a fraud in your biz? Or, just stuck in a rut - again?? Whatever your business is, if you’re hesitant, embarrassed or shy about it, it’s just not going to work long term. Time for some hair of the dog.
Question: I’m totally stuck. I thought my business was going well, but I can’t seem to get anywhere these days. It’s like spinning my wheels in mud and getting deeper and deeper into ick. Plus, I have no energy anymore. When people ask me what I do, I just can’t seem to care enough to tell them. Please tell me what is up?
Whether you’re just starting out or been around the block a dozen times, the feeling of ‘I have no idea why but there is no energy around here’ is a common one to business owners of all stripes.
First things first. Remember, everything is energy. And when you’re stuck, experience tells us there’s something wrong inside - not something you’re doing - that is creating the block.
So here’s where the idea of Hair of the Dog comes in.
The phrase ‘Hair of the Dog’ originally comes from Medieval times when physicians of the time prescribed real hair from a dog to treat dog bites.
You know, someone would come into the surgery with a dog bite. And they would get a mouthful of tonic made from hair of the dog that actually bit them.
Now we don’t know if that worked from a medical perspective, but the phrase in modern times has come to characterize something more familiar, at least to some.
When you - or someone you know - has indulged a little too much in alcohol the night before, the morning after can be a bit of a trial.
And the phrase, “You need some hair of the dog” has come to mean, “Ya might wanna have another drink, buddy, it’ll take the edge off your headache this morning.”
It’s been a little while since I’ve tried this personally, but we seem to remember it works.
So what does all this have to do with your business? A lot, actually.
If you’re stuck in any way, or even if you’re not stuck but you want to amp up your flow of energy, ask yourself this:
“In what way could I be applying the things I sell, teach or stand for, to myself?”
“How could I - more thoroughly - be doing what it is I tell my clients they should be doing?”
The answers you come up with are…well…the things you must do to get unstuck.
Mini Case Studies:
- If you’re a massage therapist, how often are you yourself going to a therapist to reap the benefits of your trade? A grumbly massage therapist whose back hurts and forehead is wrinkled from low energy isn’t someone most people would go back to…
- If you’re a financial advisor, how are your finances? We’re not saying you have to be a millionaire to be a terrific financial advisor, but you must actively be pursuing what you believe is important in the realm of finances. If you aren’t, how can you do right by your clients?
- If you are a dentist, how are your own teeth?
- If you teach cold calling, how often are you picking up the phone?
- If you’re a coach or consultant, are you walking your own talk?
‘Nuff said.
It’s pretty simple really…albeit maybe a bit unexpected. When you start to apply the Hair of the Dog Principle, count on your energy starting to flow again. It’s like taking a little booster shot in exactly the right spot.
Wisdom nugget:
Make a list of why you think people should do business with you. Be thorough. Start with as many as you can write down, and come back a couple times as you think of more.
Example: They’ll save money. Or time. Or they’ll have a lot of fun. Or…whatever.
>>> Now make a list of ways YOU can live these things yourself.
A Course About People | 5 Snippets of Wisdom for January 25
Your 5 little snippets wisdom for this week are here, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope you’ll find a useful nugget or two to take with you this week.
- People can’t see what they’re too close to.
- People’s greatest strengths are at times their greatest weaknesses.
- People love to compare.
- People are overwhelmed by technology.
- People find it difficult to ask others for help.
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Thomas Leonard in 2009: “What You See On This Table Represents An Entire Year’s Worth of Work”
Thomas Leonard, known to so many as the ‘father of modern professional coaching’ is also completely unknown to a multitude, as I found out in a rather rude awakening at the International Coach Federation (ICF) Annual Conference in December 2009. (Photos shown are from the exhibit hall there.)
Thomas was the first man to talk about this thing called ‘life coaching’ in a major magazine, Newsweek to be exact. And the first to be on a talk show about it, Donahue, in that case.
He formed the first coach training school, which is still now one of the largest and most well known. Indeed, he founded the first coaching association, the ICF itself. (Yet people attending the ICF conference had no idea.) He sold the first training school and opened another, which collided with the onset of the internet and grew like shrimp chips in hot oil. He personally led live training events in over 20 cities in less than a year. He even developed a coaching certification process through a second coaching association.
But what was the real secret behind all of these game-changing moves, in black and white? It only takes two words to tell you:
World-class content.
People who were part of Thomas Leonard’s world will recall that he often pushed aside compliments by saying ‘I’m just a fast typist.’
In other words, he was a writer.
He wrote incredibly, and if you haven’t yet experienced the impact of his writing, take a moment and go to www.BestofThomas.com and read just one thing for yourself.
For Thomas, really, the laptop was mightier than the sword.
I had the amazing good fortune to work with him. That experience left an indelible mark on me, and you could say that a little of his DNA rubbed off and stayed stuck.
So when I was given the opportunity to take the job of sifting through all his writing, all of his programs (all of his thoughts, really) and BECOME RESPONSIBLE for making THAT accessible to future generations (not just of coaches, but everyone) you would think it was an easy decision.
It wasn’t. Sometimes stepping forward to take a stand for something isn’t easy. It can be downright paralyzing in fact. I know this, first hand and in the marrow of my bones.
Sometimes, thought leadership means nothing more than doing the right thing, as it was, in this case, for me to do the work you see in these photos. What you see there, in fact, is all the materials that got packaged – with many hands on deck – using many hundreds of hours – over the course of an entire year.
It’s just the tip of the iceberg. And that, dear reader, is real grit in the oyster of MY life.
Thought leadership often means asking yourself ‘what can only I do?’ and without hubris or false humility, doing it, hopefully without too much whining.
What ‘right thing’ is sitting in your life, waiting for you to do?
What ‘thing that only you can do’ is evident in your business, waiting for you to wake up?
What is thought leadership, anyway?
On Thursday January 21, I’ll be holding a class on ‘Everyday Thought Leadership for Entrepreneurs‘…
It’s no-cost, and I’ll be using 3 example businesses to demonstrate the concepts.
The words ‘thought leadership’ may sound on the fancy side, but all they really mean is:
- thinking for yourself
- creating value in a fresh way for those around you
- daring to be even just 10% different
In business, it also means acting on those fresh ideas and creating a business structure that delivers value to your customers. By the way, if you’ve gotten hold of a truly ground-breaking idea that changes the game - and isn’t TOO ahead of its time - your business will more than ‘keep food on the table.’ This is where it gets really fun and rewarding.
And, it’s where the big success stories are going to come, in 2010. Because years ago, when the internet was a baby, it was easy for every ezine, product, or offering to be fascinating and cool. Heck, when TV was new, all the programs seemed worth watching too, right? Well, the Wild West of the Internet is definitely gone, and quality is now rising to the top.
You get to choose what kind of TV program you and your business will be. So, what will it be?
To learn more about everyday thought leadership for entrepreneurs…
Learn to cultivate best-of-class ideas, then act on them. It’s a community (planetary!) service
I have a confession to make.
I feel like I’m doing penance.
(Okay, if not penance, then at least balancing the scales a little.)
And I’m doing it head-on, fighting the good battle of what I’m calling ‘Crap Creep.’
Crap Creep.
It’s a good term, isn’t it? Instantly, you know what I mean.
Really. Look over there…see that pile of crap? Old receipts, unsolicited mail, flyers, packaging of all kinds and oh lord, your collection of crap is really complete if any Styrofoam peanuts have taken up residence.
Let’s not go too far into the realm of the crap on TV, in the news, or flapping around in the yard…it’s everywhere, including, I think, online.
Online, the crap has crept so high I shudder to try and visualize it.
And I think to myself, what if we were to give up, roll over on our proverbial backs and submit to all this crap…?
What if there wasn’t that one favorite (and critically acclaimed) show each season…
That stellar new talent, be it artist, singer, poet, physicist?
What fresh hell would that be, eh?
Well, I’m not ready to roll over. In fact, that’s where my penance comes in.
You see, I’ve realized something about my book, Multiple Streams of Coaching Income, published more than 5 years ago.
It could be argued, and it has in fact, this very night over dinner, that that book has brought home the message of packaging, productizing, formatting and repurposing so well to so many people, that a visitor from another planet could easily get the impression ‘ideas and content are incidental, and even irrelevant.’
(I didn’t in fact write that, but an error of omission is still an error worth correcting, when possible.)
Effective today, I’m taking my stand on the other side of the conversation.
Think. Just think of one great thought that has changed your world view. Not even inventions, but thoughts. Thoughts like –
We become most like the 5 people we spend the most time with.
Love is the answer.
The world is awash in money.*
We must be the change we want to see in the world.**
Opportunities don’t knock, they whisper, so shut up and listen.***
The thing is, every single one of us has great thoughts, but the world is so noisy, and our brains so busy fending off the infocrap that the gems don’t even register before they fall to the floor of our skull, never to be seen again.
Over, and over and over.
What if, instead of remarking ‘How fascinating!’ it is that we only use SUCH A TINY PERCENT of our brains… we actively worked to seize territory and activate new gray matter a quadrant at a time?
What thoughts could we come up, ourselves? Together? As a country or planet?
People who’ve learned to pay attention to their best thoughts, and act on them, are doing a community service. Strike that, make it a planetary service. They should get paid stipends, or get reductions on their taxes, if they aren’t already talented entrepreneurs. Maybe free gas for a year?
What if Tim Berners-Lee had received a giant pile of junk mail the day he was meant to think the thought that led to the invention of the internet, for example? I wouldn’t be typing this, you wouldn’t be reading it, and that certainly qualifies as a tragedy!
Even the New York Times is getting in on the act, reporting that thinking critically - analytically and originally, bearing in mind opposing vantage points - has begun to find its way into MBA courses. Thank goodness for small miracles.
So what’s the average, ordinary business owner to do about all of this?
1. Cultivate opinions.
In a me-too world of ‘who cares’ and ‘whatever he’s having,’ individuals who speak their mind clearly, and have something in that mind worth sharing, will become the standouts. They are the ones who’ll be heard in the marketing din, and attract evangelists.
Let me put it this way: ‘I think it’s an excellent idea to practice having strong opinions, starting at dinner parties. It allows you to build a cultivating-opinion muscle that will transfer to your business.’
2. Say NO to ‘infocrap.’
Consuming it, certainly, straight away. But also creating it. What project are you working on this week and what is the real value of it? What will it contribute to your clients? If you’re not sure, you’re either uncertain about communicating the value (a cool thing, because NEW ways of generating value are born every day and sometimes they sit just outside the realm of articulation).
Or, you’re not sure it contributes anything and it’s just crap. Taking a stand against Crap Creep is a great start. It frees you up to think those great thoughts again.
3. Birth something new of value.
Entrepreneurialism at its best is an evolutionary urge. (There’s that opinion thing again.) As business owners, we create the future. With every offering, every home-study kit, every retreat or live event, we are expressing our ourselves, and yes, our humanity.
When we look at thought leaders among us - those entrepreneurs who’re doing something different, combining unexpected things, approaching things from upside-down, solving an unspoken problem
….we get galvanized, don’t we? We know when something exciting is afoot. We’re attracted, we want to be part of it, we want to spend money experiencing it more. And we get hope. We’re reminded that we, too, could create something that great.
Creating something of real value is an act of love and commitment to our clients, and a nod of respect, to ourselves. It’s worth it, even when it feels like it’s against all the odds.
*Abraham-Hicks **Mahatma Gandhi ***Thomas Leonard
A Course About People | 5 Snippets of Wisdom for January 11
Here are your 5 little snippets wisdom for this week, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope you’ll find something insightful and useful to take into your week.
- People never reach their limits, they only think they do.
- People’s personal and professional lives are integrated, even if they think they’re segregated.
- People usually believe that their actions and choices are right.
- People tend to seek help when they are in pain. Their motivation often wanes as soon as the pain diminishes.
- People want things to be simpler, even if their actions seem to be to the contrary.
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Predictions and An Invitation for 2010: Why Higher Quality Content Is Needed at Higher (but not inflated) Price Points
2010 will be known for many things, but for entrepreneurs like us, some things are more sure than others.
- Free is becoming freer. No longer is it the coolest thing to give something away for free and ask for an email in exchange. In some circles, that’s just not free enough, and the really engaging thing to do is to release your thing into the wild, no email needed. If your market is one of those circles, you’re going to want to know.
- Free is becoming more expensive. On the other hand, delivering less is commanding more money. People want the perfect slice of information at exactly the right time, no more, no less. (More in this in ‘Excuse me, will you be my Google,’ a chapter in MSOCI. In an overwhelmed world of ‘infocrap’, filtering becomes of tremendous value and people will pay a premium for it. (Think Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Sugar-Free cookies.)
- Critical thinking muscles will get stronger. We’ve been let down repeatedly by the establishment in recent years (Enron, Madoff, the financial markets, pension plans in Canada, spiritual leaders such as James Ray) and painful though it is, people are beginning to wake up. In the self-help world, balanced dialog is increasing bit by bit, and artificially-inflated price points aren’t selling as well as before, or are being closed down.
This is all good news, because it directs us to a greater level of integrity, forcing us to look at what we do and inquire deeply as to our value. Doing so, we can grab the opportunity to increase our value, express our value well, and charge well (and fairly) for it.
The answer to a lot of this is not complicated - start by practicing having a strong, well thought-out opinion. Choose for yourself what you feel is important. Help others do the same. Hold high standards for your product and service offerings. Charge well, using sound business models and ethics, to reward yourself for all of the above.
An invitation…
The Wealthy Thought Leader 3-Day live event is officially on the books - just 70 days away and the first time in 4 years you can interact with me face-to-face. This is simple to understand: it’s a coaching booster shot the equivalent to many months of coaching.
For some of you, it’s time to meet my literary agent in the flesh, and see if your best content passes muster.
And for others, it’s high time to crawl inside the mentality of high-end (top dollar) money models, leaving the agony of $19 ebooks behind. Smart people selling cheap ebooks is often a doorway to hell, I’ve noticed. Time to press reset.
Well, I’ll call dibs.. I predict that 2010 is going to be the year of quality content at higher prices, leaders digging deeply into their maturing markets. If your content, money model, plan or idea isn’t ready, now’s the time to get in the game.
I invite you to join me for “The Wealthy Thought Leader - Leveraging Your Business With Ideas Worth Selling.”
www.WealthyThoughtLeader.com <- for more info
(instalment pricing expires soon)
Think Big, Act Small. No-Fee Teleclass with Smart Folk
‘Take Your Creative Business to the Next Level’
Big ideas are great. But what do you do with them?
Never fear, help is here. In the form of actionable steps, one at. A time.
Pamela Slim (making big moves look easy) and Charlie Gilkey (polymath extraordinaire) are bringing their coaching chops to this call on Thursday, January 7 - that’s right away.
The call will cover many things, including:
How to take your intentions and translate them into action without becoming a slave to a plan or system.
Thanks Pam and Charlie for the low-key results you help clients achieve. For a dose of these guys — read more and sign up here.
A Course About People | 5 Snippets of Wisdom for January 4
Here are your 5 little snippets wisdom for the first week of 2010. They’re from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope they’ll kick off your year with some new insights.
Enjoy!
- People want to be loved, appreciated and carried gently in the hearts of others, even if they deny it.
- People express love when they feel safe.
- People enjoy learning except when there is a test.
- People extend their boundaries when they understand the limitations that are within them.
- People judge themselves too harshly.
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A Crazy Name for a Sane Tool: CrazyEgg.com
Talk about hidden income! Each visitor at your website is bursting with potential income for you. But like holding a glass to a fire hose, we waste hundreds of potential paying clients, letting them spill all over.
When I’m in person, say at a speaking engagement, I try to acknowledge everyone who comes near, to say hello - it’s just rude, otherwise. I’d like to do the equivalent online, but tools like Google Analytics are just too much. Enter… Crazy Egg. Easy and only $9 a month.
If you would like to kick start, dig deep and FOCUS in 2010…
Here then, is an invitation that answers to just that. Timing being what it is, it may or may not be right for you. If it is, please don’t hesitate to signal your determination and commitment by registering.
Seats are now open at the pre-launch pricing, going out to my community only – that’s you – the better to ensure seats are allotted FIRST to the inner circle. Obviously, an event can’t be about thought leadership without standing for something, itself, right? So I invite you take a read, just to see, what you might think – for yourself – about all of this.
http://www.WealthyThoughtLeader.com
Am I saying anything new, that you haven’t heard before? Am I walking my talk, or filled with baloney? What can you see?
For more info about these market shifts, and the event if you wish…
Email me at andrea at andreajlee dot com if a chat would help the digestion of all of this. I can do a limited number of these, but am perfectly willing. We aren’t in a one-size fits all world, so the approach mustn’t be either.
And if it’s NOT for you at this time, please do only one thing – reread the above with my blessing – just to digest it for yourself.
Thinking for yourself includes deciding for yourself if you agree with something, want to invest in something, or think something it complete, utter bollocks. Whatever your opinion it is, it’s welcome. Having a strong opinion about something is the start of the spark of all of it.
Three Major Entrepreneurial Shifts in the Markets I Want to Share
There are three major shifts happening in entrepreneurial markets I want to share with you as we peer over the last page of the calendar into the fresh, new, so-far blank one.
Shift #1: The call for top quality content has begun in earnest.
Markets are increasingly dissatisfied, and more important, UNMOVED, by ‘sameness’ and are NOT BUYING unless there is a compelling, original story being told. That story then needs to be backed up by something they’ve never heard before, even just by 10%, or, the pulses of our clients, they just aren’t quickening.
This shift has already started more than murmuring, with giant content generating moguls like @garyvee @chrisbrogan and so many more, dominating the field.
Thought leadership – having a strong opinion and a voice that expresses it – is no longer a ‘nice to have’, it’s become an essential.
2010 will see the rise of this kind of content in the way that matters most – the transfer of money to your bottom line.
(And well, it should, by the way. If your content doesn’t provide some kind of unique value, again, at least by 10% compared to others, why would someone give you money?)
Shift #2: The drive to create value at higher prices will become much more important.
If you’re investing in creating your best ideas – it will become essential to find high-ticket money models to support selling them.
When your ideas are great – you know, ideas that are WORTH selling, versus ebooks for $7 or $19 or even $49 – you can build a business around them at the higher price points.
If you’re familiar with the Pink Spoon Marketing funnel – Google it if not, it’s freely available on the internet – you’ll know that this is the middle of the funnel, where the price points are high, yet your time is still well leveraged.
Making your business work in this ‘sweet spot’ will become a big focus for forward-thinking business owners. There are about 5 major business models I see working in this way now, but the principles are the same. New models can be created based on those principles. One just needs to grasp hold of those principles.
Shift #3: The notion of taking care of the ‘golden goose’ will find the spotlight.
Who, might you ask, is that golden goose? You guessed it, it’s you.
A goose, a golden one especially, would be well taken care of, wouldn’t it? It would be the best food, lovely shelter, maybe it would even be surrounded by loving people who would pet it and scratch its ears…wait a second, geese don’t have ears!
You take my point though.
It takes more than a virtual assistant to take true, abiding, sustainable care of a business owner who’s holding nothing back, and going for it.
It takes what I’m calling a PERSONAL ECOSYSTEM and done well, it can sustain the money-making POWER that emerges when the two above items are in place.
All three of these things are not rocket science. I’m sure you ‘get’ them all. But putting them together in a way that sheds all the ‘me-too’ habits…
Gets you out of the rut of learning without results…
And does so in a way that not just ALLOWS but REQUIRES you to be an individual, think for yourself, take a stand for something you care about?
This is my biggest wish for all of us for 2010.
It’s not my resolution, it’s my heart’s act of creation, just by stating it here with you.
“The best way to create the future is to predict it.” – Peter Drucker
You can create the above. I know you can and I urge you to. And I will thunderclap for you from the mountain tops through all of 2010 and more, as you do.
A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know
Here are your 5 little snippets wisdom for this holiday week, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope you’ll enjoy!
- People are becoming more aware that there is a better way to live life.
- People have more possibilities available than they realize.
- People’s perspectives are often the ones they were given rather than freely chose.
- People know they are capable of so much more but don’t know how to go about the process of creating what they want.
- People will help in times of crisis–even if you don’t ask them.
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Wishing you the best this holiday season!
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A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know
Here are your 5 little snippets wisdom for this week, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope you’ll enjoy some daily wisdom in them as you go about your week.
- People are caught up in the busyness of their lives and don’t know why they do what they do.
- People are great!
- People know more than they give themselves credit for.
- People underestimate themselves.
- People do things out of habit rather than conscious choice.
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Do any of these snippets stand out for you this week?
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A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know
Below are your 5 little snippets wisdom for this week, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope you’ll find some daily wisdom in them as you go about your week.
- People who are evolved don’t even notice.
- People go through lots of changes of mood throughout the day–from elation, to concern, to fear, to isolation.
- People are incredibly resilient–they recover from the most difficult things.
- People are always doing their best in the moment.
- People want to feel valued.
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What are your thoughts this week?
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Changing the Game Around Money | Meet Mint.com the Money-Saving Tool that Could
Sorry for this, but, don’t ever tell me you can’t change things. That goes for me too, on my Eeyore-channelling woe-is-me days. You know them, right? The days when you rage against the machine and shake your fist at the $2.50 EXTRA the ‘establishment’ wants to charge you for taking a measly $20 of YOUR OWN money out of your very own bank account?
But wait. This little company called Mint.com, it’s just another online tool, right? Err…nope, not actually. It IS an online tool that allows you to manage your money and… actually saves hundreds of dollars for its users on their very first try. Real money, like the stuff we all work to earn.
The tool itself? Is free. But of course.
As a Canadian, most of my banks are not yet supported, but American clients and friends who’ve tried it since Michael Port introduced me, report that it is indeed nothing short of a money revolution, showing the banks what they should have been doing for us all along. Even if you don’t sign up, I highly recommend a peruse around the site, starting with the kind words section.
For those of you who CAN use it, hurray, I’m green! 
Enjoy…no more excuses. Clarity and better money management are ahead. I do so love that thought leadership comes in so many forms. And heartfelt congratulations to the leaders at Mint.
Teaching License Now Available for Multiple Streams of Coaching Income
Are you a student and fan of the Multiple Streams way of thinking? Do you love the multiple streams product funnel, the power barbell, and the money game with all its attendant aha-moments?
I’m proud to release today, for the first time in nearly 5 years, a limited number of Multiple Streams of Coaching Income Teaching Licenses, for sale, details here.
Why investigate further?
- The License gives you the right to create your own programs - online, offline, individually and in groups - around the core material.
- You pay a reasonable fee with no complicated accounting or royalty payments required.
- No product-creation or manufacturing needed - as Licensee you receive wholesale pricing and can resell the book, workbook and multimedia kit at your own chosen mark-up, or, not bother at all, and send your new clients to Amazon.com to purchase.
- Increased credibility and VISIBILITY immediately, no waiting for original creations to grace your cerebral cortex.
It’s fun material, and it creates real results that change lives for the better. For business owners who’re trading time for money? It’s a game changer.
If you’re looking for a booster shot to your business in 2010, this may be the thing you’re waiting for. Click the graphic to read more information.
From Overwhelm to Actual Learning | Produce Learning Guides or Mastery Guides not just Transcripts
Engage Mike before Year-End and Receive A Package of Tweet-worthiness
Total transparency in the face of a shameless (but hopefully valuable) plug…
You may know that my husband Mike is a writer. He writes fiction, including screenplays, but in recent years has done a lot of supportive writing for me in the form of dozens of written products such as workbooks; large-scale compilations such as the Thomas Leonard materials; blog posts; and most recently Mastery Guides for the Online Business Manager Certification program.
Mike recently wrote Mastery Guidelines for Online Business Manager Certification. |
Of course, as helpful as he is, it’s been natural for me to recommend him to coaching clients for special work they’ve needed. Ghostwriting of books and ezines, from scratch, blog babysitting, and more. But the last cool thing - taking overwhelming transcripts which are nearly impossible to learn from - and converting them into actual course guides that flow, read professionally, and make learning stick… well, this is worth sharing with you all.
If you’d like to see a before and after sample of ‘notes’ to ‘mastery guide’ or ‘transcript’ to ‘mini-workbook’ or even discover whose newsletter gets ghostwritten in their voice, so well that you couldn’t tell it was ghostwritten (shhhh) Mike is taking inquiries at mike@writingreliefnow.com.
Mike’s writing makes learning stick. |
The end of the year being a little quieter, he is also offering to sweeten the pot for you if the timing happens to be write (oopsie, couldn’t help it) to put a project in his queue for December. Check out his blogsite at www.writingreliefnow.com for samples and pricing, and then write him at the above email address with ‘Tweet Bonus please’ in the subject line, if interested. For each project of a certain size booked in December, he’s offering to write you a package of unique and valuable tweets, tailored to your audience. One of his superpowers seems to be finding intriguing topics worth sharing.
So, see what you think! And enjoy, Mike is one of those rare very interesting people, if I can say that about my own husband. Far as I can tell, it’s because he’s genuinely interestED, in you. First come, of course, first served, just in time to kick the new year off with a nice shiny piece of writing, done for you.
Will I See You in Orlando at the ICF Conference? December 2-5, 2009 at Booth #203
After speaking twice at the International Coach Federation, then exhibiting twice, I’d enjoyed being ‘a nobody’ at the last couple.
This year, with my work on the Thomas Leonard legacy, and strategic role advising CoachVille.com, I will be there with bells on, once again in the Exhibit Hall.
There will be photo opps, gifts - but of course - lots to browse, classes to consider, and of course, energy to soak up, eyeball to eyeball. If you’re going to be there, be sure to drop by so we can gape at each other in the flesh, please. For most of us, it’s been too long.
Here’s a photo from earlier this summer when the CoachVille team visited chez nous. Our front yard actually looks not bad when it isn’t being drenched!
The $25,000 to $100,000 Coaching Mastermind Program | Gimme The Scoop!
‘Tis the season for year-end scrambles to fill new year-long coaching programs, so if you have ‘fill in application’ exhaust from reading newsletters these days, I can’t say I blame you. It seems like 95% of the great coaches in the community have chosen this week to announce their new offerings.
That said, these high-priced, high-commitment offerings didn’t happen overnight, and some of the biggest mastermind programs have just completed their first season.
So what is the scoop? Are these programs generating results? Are people buying in the second year? How do I do one? Do I really have to sign up for one to make big money? What is everyone else doing so I can be just different enough?
I’ll keep you posted on all those things, AND how you can do one - in the flavour of you - in the days to come, as I’ve received some requests to provide an X-ray analysis in the form of a new class.
Interested? Email me to send questions and indicate early-interest.
